Fight Club  - Quotes

 Tyler Durden:
Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned- Tyler.
 



Sherry K. White  - Quotes

 Believers infiltrate the enemy 

Tags: authority   believe   influence   power     
Superstar  - Quotes

 Mary Katherine Gallagher:
Oh my God!
Jesus:
Oh my Me! How are you?
Mary Katherine Gallagher:
It's going OK. Are you the Lord?
Jesus:
Well, to you I am. See, technically, you're, like, in this REM sleep state, and I'm a mixture of your mind's images of God, some past authority figures, uh, Skye, and your dad. Basically, your subconcsious came up with me to help you deal. Dig?
Mary Katherine Gallagher:
Yeah... uh, you want a glass of water or something?
Jesus:
No, I'm good. I'm God!
Mary Katherine Gallagher:
Oh. Right.
 



Coneheads  - Quotes

 
[Beldar tears open the roof to Ronnie's car]
Ronnie:
H-hi, Mr. Conehead.
Beldar Conehead:
I find you unacceptable!
Ronnie:
Yes, sir.
Beldar Conehead:
If I did not fear incarceration from human authority figures, I would terminate your life functions by applying sufficient pressure to your blunt skull so as to force its collapse!
Ronnie:
Th-thank you.
 

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie  - Quotes

 Squidward Tentacles:
So you're selling Krabby Patties, eh Plankton?
Plankton:
That's right, Squidward, and there's a free bucket helmet with every purchase. Care for one?
Squidward Tentacles:
No. You may have hoodwinked everyone else in this backwater town, but you can't fool me. I listen to public radio.
Plankton:
And what's that supposed to mean?
Squidward Tentacles:
It means you set up Mr. Krabs. You stole the crown so Neptune would freeze him and you could finally get your stubby paws on the Krabby Patty formula. It was you all along. But you made one fatal mistake. You messed with my paycheck and I'm gonna report you to the highest authority in the land, King Neptune!
Plankton:
We'll see about that, Inspector Looselips. [Plankton laughs and he presses a button on Karen]
Karen the Computer:
Now activating helmet brain-control devices.
Squidward Tentacles:
Huh?
 

George Carlin  - Quotes

 I HAVE JUST AS MUCH AUTHORITY AS THE POPE!... its just that fewer people believe that I do. 

Tags: authority   pope   religion     
Men in Black II  - Quotes

 Agent J:
Sweet dreams, big boy! [jabs the tranquilizer into Jeff, only aggravating him. After a few moments time, J reloads the tranquilizer]
Agent J:
Whoo! Sweet... [is launched forward]
Agent J:
dreeeeeeaaaaaaams...
Agent J:
[crashes through back window of a subway car] ... big boy. Transit authority people! Please move to the forward car, we got a bug in the electrical system! [passengers ignore him]
Agent J:
Yo! People! We got a bug in the electrical system! [Jeff bites off a large portion of the subway car, and the passengers start running to the front]
Agent J:
Yeah, now y'all runnin'! Now y'all- no, no, no, come on, sit down, sit down! It's only a 600 foot worm!
 

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix  - Quotes

 Dolores Umbridge:
Pardon me, Professor, but what exactly are you insinuating?
Minerva McGonagall:
I am merely requesting that when it comes to my students you conform to the prescribed disciplinary practices.
Dolores Umbridge:
So silly of me, but it sounds as if you're questioning my authority in my own classroom, Minerva.
Minerva McGonagall:
Not at all, Dolores, merely your medieval methods.
Dolores Umbridge:
I am sorry, dear, but to question my practices is to question the Ministry, and by extension, the Minister himself. I am a tolerant woman, but the one thing I will not stand for is disloyalty.
Minerva McGonagall:
Disloyalty?
Dolores Umbridge:
Things at Hogwarts are far worse than I feared.
 

The Bourne Ultimatum  - Quotes

 Noah Vosen:
When we're finished with Daniels, send the asset after her. We find Parsons, we find Bourne.
Pamela Landy:
Noah, what are you doing?
Noah Vosen:
Not now.
Pamela Landy:
I want to know what's going on.
Noah Vosen:
I said not now.
Pamela Landy:
What basis are you continuing this operation on?
Noah Vosen:
The basis that Nicky Parsons has compromised a covert operation. She is up to her neck in this.
Pamela Landy:
This is about Daniels, not Nicky.
Noah Vosen:
She has betrayed us.
Pamela Landy:
You don't know the circumstances, Noah.
Noah Vosen:
She's in league with Jason Bourne, for Christ's sake.
Pamela Landy:
You do not have the authority to kill her.
Noah Vosen:
Oh yes I do! And you had better get on board.
Pamela Landy:
Noah, she's one of us. You start down this path, where does it end?
Noah Vosen:
It ends when we've won.
 

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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid  - Quotes

 Sam Rogers:
We're in the middle of the jungle Jack, at this point your authority is what we say it is.
 

Tags: Authority Quotes     
Noon Blue Apples  - Quotes

 Eris:
I have a question? If you don't believe in God then why give any of this a second thought?
Zeus:
Well, I believe in defying authority, and what greater authority is there to defy than God?
 

Tags: God Quotes   Authority Quotes     
Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up to the title by ridiculing the word in my introduction to the book's first chapter.) It is actually a pity that our culture doesn't have a good vernacular word for an oppositionist or even for someone who tries to do his own thinking: the word 'dissident' can't be self-conferred because it is really a title of honor that has to be won or earned, while terms like 'gadfly' or 'maverick' are somehow trivial and condescending as well as over-full of self-regard. And I've lost count of the number of memoirs by old comrades or ex-comrades that have titles like 'Against the Stream,' 'Against the Current,' 'Minority of One,' 'Breaking Ranks' and so forth 

Crimson Tide  - Quotes

 Hunter:
Captain Ramsey, under operating procedures governing the release of nuclear weapons we cannot launch our missiles unless both you, and I agree.
Capt. Ramsey:
[shouting over Hunter] COB, what're you waiting for?
Hunter:
This is not a formality sir, this is *expressly* why your command must be repeated. It requires my assent, I *do not* give it and further more, you continue upon this course, and insist upon this launch without confirming this message first...
Capt. Ramsey:
[shouting over Hunter] Son of a bitch. As commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama I order you to place the X-O under arrest under charges of mutiny.
Hunter:
I will act, backed by the rules of precedence...
Capt. Ramsey:
[shouting at COB, over Hunter] I say again, as commanding officer of the U.S.S Alabama, I *order you*...
Hunter:
-authority in command, regulations number 815, to relieve, you, of, command, captain.
Capt. Ramsey:
-to place the X-O under arrest, under charges of mutiny! [Silence all round]
Capt. Ramsey:
COB!
Chief of the Boat:
Captain, please, the X-O is right. We can't launch unless he concurs.
Capt. Ramsey:
[reads EAM] "To the U.S.S. Alabama: Rebel-controlled missiles being fueled. Launch codes compromised, dissidents threaten to launch at continental United States, set defcon 2. Immediately launch ten Trident missile sorties." They're FUELLING THEIR MISSILES! We don't have time to fuck around!
Hunter:
Sir, I think you need time to think this over.
Capt. Ramsey:
*I* DON'T HAVE TO THINK THIS OVER!
Hunter:
[stares at Ramsey, nodding] Captain, I relieve you of your command of this ship. COB, escort the Captain to his state room, I'm assuming command.
Capt. Ramsey:
You're not assuming anything!
Hunter:
CHIEF OF THE BOAT, Captain Ramsey is under arrest, lock him in his state room!
Chief of the Boat:
Captain, please...
Hunter:
NOW, COB!
 

The Perfect Man  - Quotes

 Uncle Ben:
Well, girls, I'm really not an authority on this.
Holly Hamilton:
What makes today's perfect man perfect? What is it that he says or does that makes him a woman's perfect man?
 

Tags: Man Quotes   Authority Quotes     
Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. 

Tags: authority     
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  - Quotes

 Gandalf:
Authority is not given to you to deny the return of the king, *steward*.
Denethor:
The rule of Gondor is mine! And no other's!
 

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Sherry K. White  - Quotes

 Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership. 

Tags: authority   dominion   rule   rulership     
James Madison  - Quotes

 I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. 

Tags: authority   constitution   politics     
Terry Eagleton  - Quotes

 The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive. 

Tags: authority   individualism   rationalism   tradition     
Leonardo da Vinci  - Quotes

 Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.  

Tags: authority   silence     
J.M. Coetzee  - Quotes

 Wir werden als abh 

Tags: authority   government   identity   power     
Sherry K. White  - Quotes

 Apostles go into new territory and establish God 

Tags: apostles   authority     
Don DeLillo  - Quotes

 The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the steep glide began, people rose, fell, collided, swam in their seats. Then the serious screaming and moaning began. Almost immediately a voice from the flight deck was heard on the intercom:  

Tags: airplanes   authority   death     
Noam Chomsky  - Quotes

 I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. 

Tags: authority   challenge   dismantle   domination   freedom   heirarchy   justification     
Gattaca  - Quotes

 Vincent:
You are the authority on what is not possible, aren't you Irene? They've got you looking for any flaw, that after a while that's all you see. For what it's worth, I'm here to tell you that it is possible. It is possible.
 

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J.M. Coetzee  - Quotes

 Demokratie gestattet keine Politik au 

Tags: authority   democracy   politics     
J.M. Coetzee  - Quotes

 Wie es im Zeitalter der K 

Tags: authority   bureaucracy   democracy   politics   state     
Richard Adams  - Quotes

 They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else. 

Tags: authority   fear     
Stanley Milgram  - Quotes

 The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. 

Tags: authority   ethics   government   obendience   responsibility   society   state     
Michael Copperman  - Quotes

 ...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative 

Tags: authority   culpability   race   representation     
Erich Maria Remarque  - Quotes

 The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. 

Tags: authority   wisdom     
Bill Gaede  - Quotes

 The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world. 

Tags: authority   gaede   mathematics   peer   physics   religion   spacetime     
Benjamin Franklin  - Quotes

 I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. 

Tags: authority   marriage     
John Henry Newman  - Quotes

 I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards. 

Tags: authority   conscience   religion     
A.W. Tozer  - Quotes

 I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. 

Tags: authority   bored   earth   heaven   woman   worship     
J.M. Coetzee  - Quotes

 Den Staat k 

Tags: authority   bureaucracy   state     
Noam Chomsky  - Quotes

 That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met. 

Tags: anarchism   anarchy   authority   politics     
Albert Einstein  - Quotes

 To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. 

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